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103. Explaining Taxes, but Hot

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2026/04/11

Become a Hot Literati member at hotliterati.com Taxes explained for beginners. How tax brackets work, what deductions are, standard deduction vs itemizing, W-2 vs 1099, self-employment tax, traditional IRA vs Roth IRA, and health savings accounts — everything covered in plain language.hotliterati.com | @hotliterati

00:16:21

102. Brain Rot is Not Cute

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2026/04/10

Join our community at hotliterati.com!In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses brain rot, curiosity , her media diet, and more.

00:13:17

101. Dating Older Men and the Millennial Novel

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2026/04/09

Join our community at hotliterati.com!In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses Jennette McCurdy's debut novel, "Half His Age," with nods to "Normal People" by Sally Rooney, and "Acts of Desparation" by Megan Nolan. #books #bookclub #halfhisage #bookreview

00:10:21

100. Why Some People Are Magnetic

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2026/04/08

Join Hot Literati at hotliterati.comWhy Some People Are Magnetic It's not confidence. It's not looks. It's not charisma in the way people usually mean it. In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn makes the case that the rarest thing you can give someone isn't your time — it's your attention. Real attention, not performed attention. And most of us have never been taught the difference.We get into Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch's concept of unselfing, the

00:10:35

99. How the Internet Changed Everything for Creatives...

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2026/04/07

Join our community and get hotter and smarter at hotliterati.com The internet didn't ruin things for creatives. It changed the rules — and nobody explained what the new ones are. In this episode, we get into the economics of replication (why your work alone can't be scarce anymore and what can be), the difference between a personal brand and performing one, and what virality actually is versus what it isn't. If you make things and you're trying to figure out how to build a

00:17:30

98. The Case for Not Being Your Job

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2026/04/05

The industrial model of work did something genuinely strange to human beings: it convinced us that what we do and who we are are the same thing. Now that model is ending — quickly — and most people have no framework for what comes next.In this video: how the industrial system created the modern self, Charles Taylor on identity and orientation, why the dominant response to AI and automation is the wrong one, what literature has been saying about this moment for over a hundred years, and what it

00:11:18

97. What if it works out?

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2026/04/03

What if the thing you're most afraid won't work is the exact thing that does?This video is about belief — not as a feeling, but as a cognitive environment. What neuroscience actually says about optimism and performance. What sociologist Robert Merton's self-fulfilling prophecy tells us about how belief changes outcomes at a structural level. What complexity theory says about tipping points — and why nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, and then everything moves at once.Hot

00:05:42

96. A Pep talk to myself about Hot Literati hehe

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2026/04/02

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00:13:16

95. The Difference Between Consuming and Thinking

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2026/04/01

Hot Literati is built on one premise: depth is worth protecting. This video is about the cognitive difference between passing information through your brain and actually doing something with it — and why that distinction has never mattered more.In this video: Mortimer Adler's three levels of reading and why most people never reach the third, how confirmation bias runs unchecked when you're only consuming, why the entire algorithmic information environment is optimized against actual

00:12:20

94. The Psychology of why Some People are More...

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2026/03/31

Join us at hotliterati.com to get hotter and smarter.Some people walk into a room and hold it without trying. Others disappear from memory the moment the conversation ends. The difference isn't personality or charisma. It's something much more specific — and it's learnable.In this video: why performing makes you forgettable (Goffman's theory of social interaction), what mirror neurons actually tell other people about you, the three qualities interesting people share, why selectivity

00:10:50

93. How to get out of a Reading Slump

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2026/03/27

Join our community at hotliterati.com In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn describes how to get out of a reading slump.

00:13:03

92. Stop Identifying with Everything You Read

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2026/03/27

Join our community at hotliterati.comIn this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn explores why reading The Bell Jar made her depressed, and how she learned to read critically without identifying with the characters.

00:15:55

91. Read, Write, Own by Chris Dixon

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2026/03/27

Join our community at hotliterati.comIn this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn gives her thoughts on Read, Write, Own by Chris Dixon.

00:11:16

90. Is Your Media Diet Making You Ugly?

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2026/03/27

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00:07:05

90. How Reading Dostoevsky Can Make You Hotter

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2026/02/27

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00:55:15

88. Dating in London

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2026/02/27

Join our community at hotliterati.com :) xoxo In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses dating, building community, and art with the two women behind Art Dating Club, Jannah and Isabella.

00:28:30

87. Moby Dick, or The Whale

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2026/02/13

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00:47:03

86. Althea Aguel on Princeton, Music, and Technology

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2026/02/06

join us at hotliterati.comIn this episode, hailo and Althea discuss their time at Princeton, art, navigating your 20s, and more.

00:21:19

85. How to Choose a Career Path

Hot Literati ·

2026/01/30

In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn describes her journey throughout her career, ultimately building Hot Literati. Get a Guided Journal and join Hot Literati at hotliterati.com Join our mailing list https://hotliterati.substack.com/Get the Hot Literati Handbook https://www.hotliterati.com/product-page/the-hot-literati-handbook

00:27:17

84. All the books hailo read in 2025

Hot Literati ·

2026/01/23

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